Once, an atheist became incensed over the coming festival holidays. He decided to contact his lawyer about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant celebrations afforded to the devotees with all their holidays while atheists had no holiday to celebrate.
The case was brought before a wise judge. After listening to the long passionate presentation by the lawyer, the Judge banged his gavel and declared “Case dismissed!”
The lawyer immediately stood and objected to the ruling and said, “Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Hindus have Diwali, Janmashtami and many other, Christians have Christmas, Jews have Passover… yet my client and all other atheists have no such holiday!”
The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said, “Obviously your client is too confused to even know about, much less celebrate his own atheists’ holiday!”
The lawyer pompously said, “Your Honor, we are unaware of any such holiday for atheists. Just when might that holiday be, your Honor?”
The judge said, “Well it comes every year on exactly the same date April 1st! Since our calendar sets April 1st as ‘April Fools Day,’ and consider that in the Bhagavad-gita, Lord Krishna states, ‘Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be.’ and, ‘Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons, do not surrender unto Me.’
Thus, in my opinion, if your client says there is no God, then by scripture he is a fool, thus April 1st is his holiday! Get it?”
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